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than the fourth glume, 5-nerved but occasionally 6- or 7-nerved. The 

 third glume is a little longer than the second and the fourth, usually 

 5-nerved, broadly ovate, acute, paleate, always with three stamens 

 which come out only after the fading of the stigmas and enlarge- 

 ment of the ovary in the fourth glume. Lodicules are distinct and 

 conspicuous; palca is broad with incurved broad margins and 

 hyaline. The fourth glume is thinly coriaceous, shining, striolate, 

 broadly ovate, mucronate, compressed, faintly and thinly 5-nerved 

 and palea with infolded margins. Anthers are yellow. Stigmas 

 are white when young. Lodicules are distinct. 



It is a common grass of the wet lands met with in many parts of 

 the Presidency and often confused and united with Panicum punc- 

 tatum, Burm. 



Distribution. — Throughout India and Ceylon. It is also found in 

 Arabia. Afghanistan, Africa and Tropical America. 



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